ok. i thought i'd start a build thread of sorts for my ramp. it started out as a simple 8' wide qp to pass the time in the winter. well that idea quickly became a mini ramp. i built another tatching qp and tied them together with the top sheets as there was no framing for a flat bottom. basically it rode right on the garage pad. we diagonal mased it and i put some parking blocks on it for something different.

that's where the name came from. everyone that came over to skate was intimidated by the big block and like we all know, everything in skating comes down to a mental thing, so the name stuck. "The Mental Block".

i moved about 5 months after the original qp build and due to the ease of dis-assembly, i split the 2 qp's and moved them to my new house, where last month, i joined them back up.

my new garage is 24'x26' so naturally, we must build bigger!! since it's still built on the pad floor, i decided that i would just start adding to the width, the same way as the original. i will eventually overlap the plys to give it strength and rigidity, but as it sits now, it's solid as fuck! my friend Rob and i have done all the work so far.

thanks bailgun!!! fortunately, my dog wasn't much of a distraction lol! i went to vegas for xmas so we took a week off working but we built the end qp and started on the corner over new years. here's some more progress pics.

feels like we've really made some progress. the corner is finished. we added a few extra braces for support to it and it's not going anywhere. should have a good top to deck it out.

tonite we attacked the other corner. i told you guys that i've got something else in store for it. we built a flat bank.

the tall side make for a nice grind into the bank and we also made it so the lower side coping flows right into the flat bank.

still waiting to find out about the steel coping and we are going to make some molds for the rest of the coping. should be getting on to the sheeting tomorrow. then i'm gonna have a masonite party where everyone pitches for a sheet and brings a drill. then we shred it.

fuck i'm stoked to be updating this on the daily lol! not much longer.